Ordinary Care
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
That degree of care which persons of ordinary care and prudence are accustomed to use and employ, under the same or similar circumstances,in order to conduct the enterprise in which they are engaged to a safe and successful termination, having due regard to the rights of others and the objects to be accomplished.
8 Ohio St, 581.
The phrase “ordinary care” is equivalent to reasonable care, and necossarily involves the idea that such care was to be used as a reasonable person, under like circumstances, would adopt to avoid an accident.
8 Allen, 89. See, also, 25 Ind, 185; 6 Duer, 683; 28 Vt. 458; 23 Conn. 443.